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Casimir Battery
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I was reading on the Atomic Rockets website and came across one of Robert Forward's ideas, how to tap the Casimir effect for useable, though highly anemic, electrical power.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78621583/rober...conductors

There may be no free lunches, but it seems there is a free breath mint.

Maybe it would be useful to power interstellar probes' onboard systems at a very low level while on multi-millennia-long journeys.
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Casimir Battery - by JohnnyYesterday - 11-04-2013, 01:21 PM
RE: Casimir Battery - by stevebowers - 11-04-2013, 05:06 PM
RE: Casimir Battery - by Drashner1 - 11-05-2013, 02:08 PM

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